Henry C. Murphy

Henry Cruse Murphy ( born July 5, 1810 in Brooklyn, New York, † December 1, 1882 ) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1843-1845 and 1847-1849 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Cruse Murphy was born about two years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Brooklyn. He graduated in 1830 from Columbia College in New York City. Murphy studied law and began after the receipt of his admission as a solicitor in 1833 to practice in Brooklyn. He was in the years 1841 and 1842 as Attorney ( prosecuting attorney ) of Kings County and worked in the years 1842 to 1843 as mayor of Brooklyn. In 1846 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York as a delegate. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1842 Murphy was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Egbert on March 4, 1843. However, he suffered for his re-election bid in 1844, a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1845 from the Congress of. Murphy ran again in 1846, a congress seat. After his successful election, he entered on March 4, 1847, the successor of Henry J. Seaman. In his fourth nomination in 1848 he was defeated and retired after March 3, 1849 the Congress of.

Then he ran unsuccessfully in 1852 for the presidential nomination at the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore. On 1 June 1857 he was appointed as successor by August Belmont Minister to the Netherlands, a position which he held until June 8, 1861. About two months before the civil war had broken out. He then sat 1861-1873 in the New York State Assembly. During this time he took in 1867 and 1868 to the Constituent Assemblies of New York. In addition, he was the owner and editor of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. He died on December 1, 1882 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery.

Works

• Translation of Voyages from Holland to America 1632 to 1644 by De Vries.
• Henry Hudson in Holland: Origin and Objects of the Voyage Which Led to the Discovery of the Hudson River, The Brothers Giunta d' Albani, 1859.
• Jacob Steendam, yet Vaster: A Memoir of the First Poet in New Netherlands, with his Poems, Descriptive of the Colony, The Brothers Giunta d' Albani, 1861.